The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sat 2/11/06)

[RetroLounge]

To Failure

You and I are like a marriage of convenience
between two down-on-their-luck families,
the Eastmans and the Roebucks, or the Nixons
and the Goldwaters. We don't care for each other,

but I have a bottle of wine and you have a corkscrew.
I have a pack of cigarettes and you have a lighter.
We agree to sheathe our teeth, drink the wine,
smoke, kiss. A day becomes a night, one night

becomes two nights. I get out of bed, put on my boxers,
shorts, and a white T-shirt silk-screened with a photo
of construction workers eating lunch atop a skyscraper
in 1932. The sun is hot when I walk around the corner

to withdraw twenty dollars from a bank machine.
The dots of gum on the cement sidewalk look like
an exercise in a child's book. Connecting the dots
to see where they lead seems luckier than going back.

Tim Skeen

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RL

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[yvr girl]

1. We all feel like that sometimes

None of us get through this life without things that didn't work out. :hug:

[miss_american_pie]

2. How did you manage

to find a more depressing poet than Bukowski?

:hug: :hug: :hug:

[RetroLounge]

3. Just luck I guess...

or maybe he found me...

:hi:

RL

[miss_american_pie]

5. Your luck needs to change then

maybe you should go rub something. ;)

[RetroLounge]

6. go rub something?

like a small genie lamp?

RL

[miss_american_pie]

9. Or...

a rabbit's foot. :hi:

[swimboy]

12. I'm thinking two sticks

:evilgrin:

[RetroLounge]

17. of course you are...

:spank:

RL

[swimboy]

24. Okay, RL--

You are SO getting a spanking on YOUR birthday, now! :rofl:

[xchrom]

4. i don't know - i don't find this depressing.

i'm not going to get into it -- but -- it suits some of us.

after all -- he got a pretty good poem out of it.

literal -- but pretty good.

[RetroLounge]

7. Good call.

:hi:

RL

[In_The_Wind]

8. Sigh ...

The failure of a marriage can be a working partnership albeit it sometimes becomes MINO.

[RetroLounge]

18. MINO?

:shrug:

RL

[In_The_Wind]

20. .

married in name only

[RetroLounge]

21. Already there...

RL

[In_The_Wind]

23. Been there ...

since 1999

[SeattleGirl]

10. Wow

You're playing my song, RL

[RetroLounge]

11. Hi!

:hi:

RL

[swimboy]

13. The poem says something to me about the grinding adequacy of neediness

it's a really observant poem

[RetroLounge]

14. Hey there!

Happy Birthday again!

RL

[swimboy]

15. Thanks, RL!

and T-minus 2 days for you! :hug:

[RetroLounge]

16. Don't remind me...

45 sounds so old...

But I guess it isn't...

RL

[lizziegrace]

19. 45?

Right behind you. Mine's two weeks from today. :(

[RetroLounge]

22. Oooh, a younger woman...

:D

RL

[lizziegrace]

25. Thank you !

I needed that. I'm feeling very old these days!

:hug: